Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Gallery => Phototalk => Topic started by: kyuss on 24 February, 2009, 05:59:38 pm
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Seeing as they are dirt cheap I'm thinking of getting a Holga for playing about with. I can also get some out of date 120 film for about 50p a roll so I was wondering if any of you guys have any suggestions for cheap mail order medium format processing. I can probably do any black and white stuff myself in the bathroom but it's the look of Holga colour stuff that's interesting me at the moment.
I've seen a few places but any personal recommendations would be appreciated.
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I've used peak iaging with good results. The lubitel was fine up to 12" square.
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Dunns at Cradley Heath near Dudley still run a 120 dev and print service. http://www.dunnsprophoto.co.uk/
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Thanks guys.
Peak Imaging was one of those I'd noticed myself on t'internet. Good to get a personal recommendation though. They seem cheap enough. And they do cross processing too. :thumbsup: (I could create the same effect in photoshop of course, but it's just not random enough for my liking.)
Now to find a cheap Holga GN. I just realised the ones I'd seen on ebay within my meagre budget are from Hong Kong :-\.
EDIT: Mmmm. Having looked on ebay a second hand Lubitel 166 is looking like a much better alternative. David, as a Lubitel user, anything I should look out for?
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Thanks guys.
Peak Imaging was one of those I'd noticed myself on t'internet. Good to get a personal recommendation though. They seem cheap enough. And they do cross processing too. :thumbsup: (I could create the same effect in photoshop of course, but it's just not random enough for my liking.)
Now to find a cheap Holga GN. I just realised the ones I'd seen on ebay within my meagre budget are from Hong Kong :-\.
EDIT: Mmmm. Having looked on ebay a second hand Lubitel 166 is looking like a much better alternative. David, as a Lubitel user, anything I should look out for?
Not one like mine which unfortunately got reassembled with the lenses slightly out of sync.. (after a bit of creative exploration on my part)
Otherwise there isn't a lot to go wrong with them. If you want to risk one, I can pass you mine to play with. I might look at realigning the lenses first.
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If you can find a good one the Minolta Autocord was a TLR with a cracking good lens. It had a slide focus mechanism for one handed operation. That was the part that often went first.
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David, that's a very kind offer which i may take you up on if I can't find a cheap one locally or on ebay.
Bikepacker, cheers for the recommendation of the Autocord. Looks the business and there are a couple on ebay at the moment. Might try and get a hold of one of those in the future. They certainly seem to have their fans.
I think I'm after something a little less 'polished' though at the moment, if you know what I mean. The images I've seen from the Autocord look a bit good. It's that lo-fi look I'm after, where the crappiness of the camera plays its part in the feel of the photo too, which is why the Holga (and to a certain extent the Lubitel) would be ideal.
Decision, decisions...
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David, that's a very kind offer which i may take you up on if I can't find a cheap one locally or on ebay.
Bikepacker, cheers for the recommendation of the Autocord. Looks the business and there are a couple on ebay at the moment. Might try and get a hold of one of those in the future. They certainly seem to have their fans.
I think I'm after something a little less 'polished' though at the moment, if you know what I mean. The images I've seen from the Autocord look a bit good. It's that lo-fi look I'm after, where the crappiness of the camera plays its part in the feel of the photo too, which is why the Holga (and to a certain extent the Lubitel) would be ideal.
Decision, decisions...
I've dug the lubitel out of the box. It seems fine and I still have some 120 roll film kicking about. Maybe I should bring it down to Edi one day and take over Anths bathroom to do some serious B&W stuff..
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